Ayurveda's Autumn Kitchen

What we’ll do together

We’ll explore, not cook. Ever notice how your salad in June leaves you bloated in October, or how the same breakfast feels grounding in winter but gives you acid reflux in late summer? That’s not something random. All foods have different tastes and qualities, which you’ll explore through the 5 spices you bring. You’ll taste and feel the effects in your body of the different spices, their heat, their dryness, their heaviness or lightness, the sweetness, spiciness or sourness. Kitchari, Ayurveda’s go-to meal when life is challenging, and porridge become your two testing grounds. We’ll work through the recipes together, adjusting them until they actually agree with your digestion this autumn. With this information you can choose more wisely what actually works for you, through your personal experience. That’s the power of working with gunas (qualities) and tastes (rasa), it’s an experiential language for understanding the effect of food on your body and using it as medicine.

Digestion works the same way. If an ordinary meal ever leaves you bloated, gassy, or without energy for the rest of the day, that’s usually your digestive fire (agni) telling you it’s struggling. Once you can recognize that bloating and gassiness are actually warning signals, you can use what you learn here to make choices that reduce those symptoms.

I’ll mention the doshas, but we won’t go into that rabbit hole. The gunas and rasa do the same job, but much simpler and you can feel them directly in your own body instead of trying to remember what you are supposed to do according to your dosha test.

What you take home

After the workshop you’ll receive a handout with everything we worked with: the qualities and tastes explained so you can keep using them, a short explanation of digestive fire, the five spices and autumn favourites food list with their properties, and the two full recipes, the kitchari and the porridge. Enough to start cooking with the season this same week. This way we keep things simple, which is most supportive for most bodies, instead of a whole list of supplements and superfoods that are not digestible.

You’ll also get the recording, so if you’re low on energy, unable to make it, or you live in a timezone where this is the middle of the night, nothing is lost.

This is for you if

You live with chronic symptoms, inflammation, or a digestion that has strong opinions. You’re tired of advice that treats your body like everyone else’s, instead of looking at your complex situation. Or you’re simply curious what this Ayurveda thing looks like when it’s applied to your actual daily life. You don’t need any Ayurvedic knowledge to join. You need a body, five specific kitchen spices, a bit of curiosity and an open mind to look at your food and your body in a different way.